by Doug Nichols | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Bradford, Vinnie, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, D'Asaro, Michael, De Jong, Duris, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers F - J, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Johnson, Stacey, Marx, Bob, Marx, Michael, Mayer, Helene, Mori, Torao, Nadi, Aldo, Northern California, Oregon, Richards, Ed, San Jose State University, Schifrin, Peter, Schools/Clubs, Vince, Joseph, Washington |
A number of things have come my way recently through various paths. Taken individually, they add to the collection in nice ways, but don’t necessarily give me the grist to crank out a full story around them. I thought it might be fun to drop them instead in a...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches F - J, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Marx, Bob, Marx, Michael, Oregon, Schools/Clubs, Studio of American Fencing |
If you’ve been checking in here regularly, you’ll know I frequently haunt the corridors of that virtual thrift store known as Ebay. Sometimes I find things of fencing interest, sometimes I don’t. It’s a mix of disappointment and fascination. ...
by Doug Nichols | May 6, 2019 | Blog Post, Borack, Carl, Coaches, Coaches A - E, D'Asaro, Michael, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Northern California, San Jose State University, Schools/Clubs |
Carl Borack was something of an enigma to me when I first encountered him in 1979. By that time, he had traveled the world, won the US Nationals (foil), been on an Olympic team and produced his first feature film in Hollywood. After 2 years at Cabrillo Community...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, D'Asaro, Michael, Doug's Stories, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg |
Between my own collection and some donations to The Archive over the last couple of years, I think I have every edition of the Fencing Times that were published beginning, I believe, in 1980. It was nominally the So Cal Division newsletter, but for those of us that...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog Post, California, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg, National Tournament, Nonomura, George, Tournaments, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
I confess that it has been hard to sit down and find the wherewithal to come up with a story in the past weeks. Since the death of my first coach, Len Carnighan, it’s been frankly a challenge. For those of you who don’t know, we here at the West Coast Fencing...
by adminGreg | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog Post, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael |
One of the things, we are also collecting here at the West Coast Fencing Archive, besides medals, blades, and posters is stories. We have a rich fencing tradition on the West Coast, but it is mostly known through oral tradition. In effort to preserve those stories,...
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